Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel.
In the dance world, it has to be in your genetic make-up - your body has to suit the training.
It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.
Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And I was good at logic and reasoning; figures were comfortable inside my head.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Mr. Lincoln is one of Nature’s orators, using his rare powers solely and effectively to elucidate and to convince, though their inevitable effect is to delight and electrify as well.
I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.
I haven't actually studied acting at all.
Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.
My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.
I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
